Lonesome dove [videorecording] a Motown Production in association with Wittliff/Pangaea and RHI Entertainment, Inc. ; produced by Dyson Lovell ; teleplay by Bill Wittliff ; directed by Simon Wincer. - 2-disc collector's ed. - Santa Monica, CA : Genius Entertainment, [2008] - 2 videodiscs (373 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Title from container. Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry. Originally produced as a television miniseries in 1989. Special features: "The making of an epic:" 50-minute behind-the-scenes featurette; original interviews on the set with Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, and the rest of the cast; a new interview with director Simon Wincer ; "Blueprints of a masterpiece:" original sketches and concept drawings featurette; interview with Pulitzer Prize winning author Larry McMurtry.

Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Robert Urich, Frederic Forrest, D.B. Sweeney, Ricky Schroder, Anjelica Huston.

Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call, longtime friends and former Texas Rangers, steal over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border and recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to Montana.

Not rated.


DVD, widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, NTSC.


Closed-captioned.

159445079X 25.00 9781594450792

796019811972

81197 Genius Entertainment


Ranchers--Drama.
Cattle stealing--Drama.
Cattle drives--Drama.


Western television programs.
Television mini-series.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

PN1992.8.W4 / L66 2008

791.45/72